Lecture Series: Arthur Krulewitz, MD CM – The Cuban Missile Crisis

Arthur Krulewitz, MD CM – The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban missile crisis was a major confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba. During a thirteen day period in October 1962 the world teetered on the verge of a nuclear holocaust as President Kennedy and premier Nikita Khrushchev engaged in high stakes political Brinkmanship.

Arthur is currently a docent at the museum and is a retired internal medicine/ critical care/ pulmonary physician most recently from South Hadley Massachusetts.